Hi Dave. I’ve been learning more about the command line on my Mac system thanks to your Learning Unix for OS X book. Fun! I’m curious, though, is there a way to access the copy / paste buffer from within Terminal?
My boss wants me to prepare some spreadsheets with our financials but I’m on an Ubuntu Linux system and have no idea how to get started. Help!
I hate having the generic picture show up when I go to log in to my Ubuntu Linux desktop system. How can I add a profile photo or picture?
Now that I have Ubuntu Linux running on my desktop, I’m pretty psyched to learn more about Linux. But first things first, what’s the easy way to change the desktop wallpaper? The default is pretty awful!
Hi Dave! I’m learning how to work within the Linux environment and my professor has set us all up with VMware Fusion on our Macs and Ubuntu Linux in the virtual machine. I just want to ensure I have it set up properly for best performance. What do you recommend?
I have a variety of old computers running various versions of Ubuntu Linux. Works great. But how can I check to see if there’s an update, and apply any new OS software needed to keep them all updated?
I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux and really enjoying it, but am stuck; how do I change my account password? Every time I try, I end up in some password archive library and don’t know how to proceed!
I’m really liking Ubuntu Linux but miss Google Chrome. Firefox just isn’t cutting it for me. Can I replace Firefox with Chrome in Linux? If so, how?
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